San Sebastian — Netflix has had, since arriving in Spain, a close relationship with the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Last year, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” loomed large, featuring on the fest’s largest billboard. And this year, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s “Seventeen” occupied four adjacent billboards along the festival’s most highly trafficked walkway.
Premiering to industry and press on Thursday, the film’s first public screenings kicked off this morning at 9am. So far, the buzz has been good.
Two days before turning 18, Héctor escapes the juvenile detention center he’s lived in for two years after a dog he had been rehabilitating – although who was rehabilitating who is a matter for debate – is adopted and no longer able to visit the center.
After making good his escape, Héctor (Montoro) half-bakes a multi-part plan to A: Recruit his older brother Ismael (Nacho Sánchez) to his cause, B: Get his terminally...
Last year, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” loomed large, featuring on the fest’s largest billboard. And this year, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s “Seventeen” occupied four adjacent billboards along the festival’s most highly trafficked walkway.
Premiering to industry and press on Thursday, the film’s first public screenings kicked off this morning at 9am. So far, the buzz has been good.
Two days before turning 18, Héctor escapes the juvenile detention center he’s lived in for two years after a dog he had been rehabilitating – although who was rehabilitating who is a matter for debate – is adopted and no longer able to visit the center.
After making good his escape, Héctor (Montoro) half-bakes a multi-part plan to A: Recruit his older brother Ismael (Nacho Sánchez) to his cause, B: Get his terminally...
- 9/27/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The San Sebastian International Film Festival on Friday unveiled 15 Spanish titles set to screen in various sections of the event's upcoming 67th edition.
Three of them will screen in the competition of the official section, while the Netflix original film Seventeen (Diecisiete), a production of Atipica Films, was invited to screen in an out-of-competition slot as part of the official selection. From director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, the road movie focuses on the relationship between a troubled teenager (Biel Montoro), his big brother (Nacho Sanchez) and his missing therapy dog. Netflix has screened three other originals in San Sebastian, including ...
Three of them will screen in the competition of the official section, while the Netflix original film Seventeen (Diecisiete), a production of Atipica Films, was invited to screen in an out-of-competition slot as part of the official selection. From director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, the road movie focuses on the relationship between a troubled teenager (Biel Montoro), his big brother (Nacho Sanchez) and his missing therapy dog. Netflix has screened three other originals in San Sebastian, including ...
- 7/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The San Sebastian International Film Festival on Friday unveiled 15 Spanish titles set to screen in various sections of the event's upcoming 67th edition.
Three of them will screen in the competition of the official section, while the Netflix original film Seventeen (Diecisiete), a production of Atipica Films, was invited to screen in an out-of-competition slot as part of the official selection. From director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, the road movie focuses on the relationship between a troubled teenager (Biel Montoro), his big brother (Nacho Sanchez) and his missing therapy dog. Netflix has screened three other originals in San Sebastian, including ...
Three of them will screen in the competition of the official section, while the Netflix original film Seventeen (Diecisiete), a production of Atipica Films, was invited to screen in an out-of-competition slot as part of the official selection. From director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo, the road movie focuses on the relationship between a troubled teenager (Biel Montoro), his big brother (Nacho Sanchez) and his missing therapy dog. Netflix has screened three other originals in San Sebastian, including ...
- 7/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid — Netflix is starting production on its latest Spanish original film, Daniel Sénchez Arévalo’s “Seventeen” (“Diecisiete”) the U.S. streaming giant announced Thursday.
Also written by the director, the road movie marks return to filmmaking of Sénchez Arévalo, one of Spain’s foremost young crossover cineasts, after his first novel, “Alice’s Island” – soon to be released in the U.S. – was selected as a finalist for Spain’s Premio Planeta, one of its most coveted literary awards.
To be shot almost entirely on location in the breathtaking Cantabria, in the North of Spain, a countryside of stunning verdant valleys and abrupt limestone buffs, “Seventeen” tells the story of Hector, aged 17, who’s has been in a youth detention center for two years, and as part of reintegration therapy, is sent to an animal rescue center, where he encounters a dog as shy and elusive as him.
When Oveja,...
Also written by the director, the road movie marks return to filmmaking of Sénchez Arévalo, one of Spain’s foremost young crossover cineasts, after his first novel, “Alice’s Island” – soon to be released in the U.S. – was selected as a finalist for Spain’s Premio Planeta, one of its most coveted literary awards.
To be shot almost entirely on location in the breathtaking Cantabria, in the North of Spain, a countryside of stunning verdant valleys and abrupt limestone buffs, “Seventeen” tells the story of Hector, aged 17, who’s has been in a youth detention center for two years, and as part of reintegration therapy, is sent to an animal rescue center, where he encounters a dog as shy and elusive as him.
When Oveja,...
- 9/13/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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